What’s next for the U.P. in Michigan’s clean energy transition?

SOLAR: 

• Inflation Reduction Act funding will support multiple Ohio solar projects on former landfills and at a retiring coal plant. (Energy News Network) 
• After multiple delays, Detroit’s city council approves the first phase of a plan to build solar projects on residential land to power municipal operations. (Detroit Free Press)

GRID: 

• Record-high prices in grid operator PJM’s most recent capacity auction should provide incentives for power plant companies to build new generation and keep existing plants operating. (Utility Dive)
• A U.S. Senate committee advances a bill with broad support for streamlining the energy permitting process that backers say would boost clean energy and fossil fuel projects alike. (States Newsroom)
• Consumers Energy says a new $9.5 million substation in suburban Grand Rapids, Michigan, will improve grid reliability and support ongoing manufacturing growth in the area. (MLive)

PIPELINES: 

• Summit Carbon Solutions says Republican lawmakers’ attempts to overturn Iowa regulators’ approval of a carbon pipeline are an “improper attack” by a minority of members in the Legislature. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)
• Iowa regulators take public testimony on proposed changes to carbon pipeline regulations, while the state’s agriculture secretary says lawmakers should create new “guardrails” for using eminent domain. (Radio Iowa)
• A federal judge in North Dakota dismisses the remainder of a lawsuit brought by a Dakota Access protester accusing law enforcement of using excessive force against him in 2017. (Associated Press)